KANSAS AND THE INDIAN FRONTIER 119 CHAPTER IX "PIKE'S PEAK OR BUST!" 138 CHAPTER X FROM ARIZONA TO MONTANA 156 CHAPTER XI THE OVERLAND MAIL 174 CHAPTER XII THE ENGINEERS' FRONTIER 192 CHAPTER XIII THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD 211 CHAPTER XIV THE PLAINS IN THE CIVIL WAR 225 CHAPTER XV THE CHEYENNE WAR 243 CHAPTER XVI THE SIOUX WAR 264 CHAPTER XVII THE PEACE COMMISSION AND THE OPEN WAY 284 CHAPTER XVIII BLACK KETTLE'S LAST RAID 304 CHAPTER XIX THE FIRST OF THE RAILWAYS 324 CHAPTER XX THE NEW INDIAN POLICY 340 CHAPTER XXI THE LAST STAND: CHIEF JOSEPH AND SITTING BULL 358 CHAPTER XXII LETTING IN THE POPULATION 372 CHAPTER XXIII BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 387 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS THE PRAIRIE SCHOONER _Frontispiece_ PAGE MAP: INDIAN COUNTRY AND AGRICULTURAL FRONTIER, 1840-1841 22 CHIEF KEOKUK _facing_ 30 IOWA SOD PLOW. (From a Cut belonging to the Historical Department of Iowa.) 46 MAP: OVERLAND TRAILS 57 FORT LARAMIE, 1842 _facing_ 78 MAP: THE WEST IN 1849 120 MAP: THE WEST IN 1854 140 "HO FOR THE YELLOW STONE" _facing_ 144 THE MINING CAMP " 158 FORT SNELLING " 204 RED CLOUD AND PROFESSOR MARSH " 274 MAP: THE WEST IN 1863 300 POSITION OF RENO ON THE LITTLE BIG HORN _facing_ 360 MAP: THE PACIFIC RAILROADS, 1884 380 THE LAST AMERICAN FRONTIER CHAPTER I THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT